"Should I use Perl or PHP?" - a question asked today about a heavy data processing application, but by a delegate who's main work is web site stuff and who is here on a PHP course ... with some prior Perl experience.
Not an easy question to answer; if the guy was only doing the data processing work ....
I've been doing some work with log file / exception report analysis over the past few days, with a geographic slant. And I've come to the conclusion that a picture paints a thousand words ... or even more!
Do you prefer a listing of log file data - in this first case of trains that are shorter tha ....
It may still be the summer holidays, but we're already planning our courses for next year! You'll find that our main course index now lists public courses until the end of July 2009, and that each of the individual course descriptions also lists dates for the next 12 month.
We have also updated our ....
Today is the "Glorious 12th" - and the start of the grousing season.
Do I envy, or admire, people who breed pheasants just to shoot at them. Or go our on the moors, with beaters, to take a potshot at the grouse on the moors of Scotland? No, I don't and it's a world away from mine. But it is a day ....
I was back for first principles this morning for a delegate who - though very much an experienced programmer - is new to web work and HTML, and I put together a series of demonstrations using various web components ...
1. A straightforward HTML page, including document definition, a head and a body ....
Like other businesses, we are seeing some of our costs rising at present rather faster than has happened in the recent past. However, I am happy to announce that hotel room prices, and training course prices, will remain unchanged for the rest of the year. We review prices annually (at the end of th ....
How would you feel if someone sat opposite you in a train, stared hard at your throughout your journey, watched what you were doing all the time yet without engaging you at all? I suspect you would find that it made your spine tingle - it certainly would with me, and it would make me wonder what tha ....
Covent Garden, Central London, on a hot August afternoon. London is teeming with visitors, and considering that I was working in the Soho section of the West End, and staying (literally) in the shadow of the London Eye on the South Bank, I shouldn't have been surprised at the crowds. This first ....
In the 1970s, we had C and in that decade and the following one, we put together our systems in that language and its derivatives.
In the 1990s, we had Perl and in that decade and the following one, we put together our systems in that language are related ones.
In the 2010s, we'll have a wide rang ....
Programming training is much more effective if the delegates are shown how a particular program is written, rather than just the final result ... show them just the final result and they'll ask "but how did you come up with that?"
So whenever possible, I write new examples in front of my delegates ....